https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/10/28/bernie-sanders-was-lucky-he-didnt-have-his-heart-attack-in-a-single-payer-system/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR15UvHxUzSbKu9BcNRjYF3ORggbz5eLP3PqueAsX6xCl0Tyq9ffXopAXgQ
"Canada’s waiting woes date back decades. A 1995 study published in the Journal of the American
College of Cardiology found that two-thirds of patients in the United States who needed an urgent
coronary angiography test—which reveals blockages in the arteries—got it within 24 hours.
None
did in Canada. In fact, nearly two-thirds of Canadians had to wait more than three days—just for
the test."The situation has not improved in the years since. There, the median wait for an angioplasty is 3 to
11 weeks, depending on the province. That’s after an appointment with a specialist, according to a
report on wait times by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank."
The socialization of healthcare is the reason why Canada (population 37M) has fewer MRI machines
than the city of Pittsburgh (population 302K). A necessary component of socialism is eliminating the
profit motive. When governments do this to an industry, quality, innovation, and supply of a service
or product diminishes.
If Bernie gets his Medicare for all, he would't live long enough to see the reduction of the American
healthcare system to a take-a-number-and-stand-in-line bureaucracy. He'd go to the hereafter believing
he'd accomplished the greatest domestic policy change of all time.
